The amps you have mentioned are commercial amps and I'm looking at amps that are non commercial. Furthermore, the amps you have mentioned I believe are D class, whereas the Primare is A class. I'm willing to pay the extra money, though I don't want to purchase an amp that is overkill for my setup. I will look at the link you sent me, thank you.
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I don't know what you meant by "A class". In terms of amplifier design classification (
http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/amplifier/amplifier-classes.html) it is definitely not class A, it is likely a form of class D design. Based on the list price, specifications and how they advertised the features, magazine reviews etc, it is the kind of products aimed squarely at the audiophile group who are prone to Placebo effects/expectation bias. People in that group tends to (I don't mean all of them) believe that performance is directly tied to price. Also, by the principle of the economy of scale, don't expect such products offer the best value for the money.
In fact, I don't have doubt that for that kind of money, you can spend less than half on the latest Yamaha, Denon or even Marantz AV receivers and get better overall performance. The magazine reviewers will not tell you that because to them that is just not possible due to the huge price gap.
For the same money or less, you can also go the totally "separates" route, instead of getting such an expensive AV integrated amp that will get outdated quickly anyway.
Another thing to consider, your current AVR may be the bottle neck, but once you replace it with anything like the top end or near top end AVR such as the ones mentioned, your speakers will become the bottle neck, so
even if the Primare unit is so much better, it won't make your speakers sound any better. It may make them sound different but not more accurate or better.
